Beery Swine in Norway

Russell said it would be dark.

Wittgenstein said he hated daylight.

Russell said it would be lonely.

Wittgenstein said he prostituted his mind talking to intelligent people.

Russell said he was mad.

Wittgenstein said God preserve him from sanity.

from The Wittgenstein House (Skjolden) by Alec Finlay

filet O fish for my tortured wife

Art for art's sake, for those who spend all their spare time in front of the television set and tell the newspapers what books they are saving up for the summer even though they then don't find time to read them, and over the Christmas holidays relax an evening or two with good literature? I'm not an idiot, for those folks I write when I have something to tell them. Art for art's sake I write for myself and my wife. The importance of an appreciative audience cannot be overemphasized.

from Serious Poems (1997) by Kai Nieminen

David Lynch digs fish, whereas I'm guessing Roger Qbert is a McRib-Mannnn...

Saline Glibbery is swingingly licked by Maltese Marinetti!

Here are three definitions from new-to-me-to-you book, The Poets' Encyclopedia, but only by our own good ol' Dick Higgins! More later? Slamdunk! Better late than ever:-

AESTHETICS - That branch of religion which is concerned with the unseen or unperceivable mysteries of the arts: a speciality of Central Europeans, but an unmentionable topic in North America.

AMERICAN ART - What middle class dropouts make for upper class sponsors when they aren't too busy posing as socialists.

POET - A painter's poor cousin.

Humguf! From too too true to Tony Drago...

The Collapsed Supercilia of Zelda Zonk

In December 1954, Monroe bought a plane ticket under the name 'Zelda Zonk' and abruptly abandoned Hollywood for New York. - from The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell (of the earnest lantern-jaw, and flailing vociferous hands):-